Belt and Road Symposium on Urban Health and Wellbeing
<p>Call for contributions for a symposium that aims to put health at the centre of China’s Belt & Road Initiative.</p>
19.02.2018
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<p>Call for contributions for a symposium that aims to put health at the centre of China’s Belt & Road Initiative.</p>
19.02.2018
<p>From 6 – 13 February the global urban community will gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the 9th World Urban Forum, following up on the decisions taken at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador in 2016.</p>
05.02.2018
<p>This is part of a series of interviews with leaders from international partner organisations. We asked them to weigh in on the importance of our proposed merger with the International Council for Science for a fast-changing scientific future.</p>
18.10.2017
<p>Following the call for pre-proposals on ‘Advancing the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11 on cities in Africa’, applications are now open for scientists and non-academic experts to help in reviewing full proposals.</p>
26.09.2017
<p>As part of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa” programme, 31 representatives of the successful pre-proposals attended a 5-day training workshop on trans-disciplinary (TD) research, which took place on 28 August – 1 September 2017 at the Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda.</p>
04.09.2017
<p><a href="http://waterinstitute.unc.edu/">The Water Institute</a> at the University of North Carolina has announced that the second Nexus Conference on the theme of Water, Food, Energy and Climate will take place 16-18 April 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.</p>
01.08.2017
<p>This model aims to modify the environment where people live, play and work to influence the social determinants of health.</p>
04.07.2017
<p>Nearly 30 world leading experts on urbanisation will gather in London next week for the inaugural meeting of the new UCL-<em>Nature Sustainability</em> Expert Panel to discuss new recommendations on strengthening the urban science policy interface to support the implementation of SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda.</p>
26.06.2017
<p>The ICSU Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean has organized and hosted two meetings for the Urban Health Working Group with the goal of promoting and discussing the Urban Health agenda in El Salvador and the region.</p>
13.04.2017
<p>As part of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa” programme, the International Council for Science (ICSU), in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) will support 10 collaborative research projects across Africa (to the value of up to 90,000 Euro each over two years) that will advance the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 (sustainable cities and communities) in Africa.</p>
27.02.2017